Bruno Jetin went to Singapore at the invitation of UBIFrance and the French Institute of the French Embassy on the 7th of April. In the morning, he made a conference on the “ASEAN Economic Community and its impact on the strategy of global firms” at the EDHEC Risk Institute-Asia followed by a debate with EDHEC MBA students. In the afternoon, he made a conference at Wee Keem Wee Center of Singapore Management University on “Social Cohesion and Development in Southeast Asia” where he presented (...)

Nathalie Fau went to Oxford to participate to the Southeast Asian Studies Symposium which was held at Kebble College on 22-23 march. She led a panel entitled “Comparing Transnational Dynamics in the Greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Straits”. The aim of this panel was to present and discuss the main results of a research program (“Transnational Dynamics and Territorial Redefinitions in Southeast Asia : The Greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Straits economic corridors”) that was published (...)

International conference organised by IRASEC, CAF, CEPN, ESCAP, and IRD.
This conference was held on December 16th at the Academy of Social Sciences of Vietnam in Hanoi. It gathered several economists whose research focus on East Asia regional integration with a special emphasis on ASEAN Economic Community due to be launched in 2015. Presentations dealt with the impact of a reduction of trade costs on regional trade, on foreign exchange and global value chains, on ASEAN single market and (...)

Dr Christine Cabasset (IRASEC Associate Researcher) and Dr Benjamim Corte-Real (INL-University of Timor-Leste) organised an international seminar on "Strengthening Asean and Regional Governance" on 11 December 2013 in Dili. Three sessions were successively held on the themes "Politics and Security", "Asean and Regional Security", "Social-Economic Issues" (details in pdf document).
The seminar was hosted by the Secretary of State for Asean Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of (...)

Bruno Jetin has joined the “French-Indonesian Academic Cooperation Meeting” at the invitation of the French Institute in Indonesia of the French Embassy in Indonesia which was held on October 10-11 in Surabaya. This meeting has gathered several hundreds of representatives of universities and research institutes from France and Indonesia. Bruno Jetin has been part of the round table dedicated to economics, law and management. It has been an opportunity to present IRASEC and the resources it (...)

Jérémy Jammes has attended CCSEAS (Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies) symposium, chaired by Prof. Dominique Caouette (CETASE), which was held from 17 to 19 October 2013 at the Carrefour des Arts and Sciences at the University of Montreal among over 120 participants from Canada, South-East Asia, United States and Europe (https://www.casa-acea.ca/++cs_INTERRO++page_id=6). The topic of this year was : “Multiple encounters, shifting spaces : Southeast Asia at the crossroads”. J. Jammes notably opened (...)

A conference about Catching up Southeast Asian New Body : States, Markets and Public Spheres, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto University), the Institute of Asian Studies (Chulalongkorn University), the Nottingham University (Malaysian Campus) and IRASEC, was held on the 25-29th of September 2013 at the Cape Panwa Hotel in Phuket.
IRASEC organized a panel titled “Regional integration in Southeast Asia and socio-cultural bodies.” Natalie Fau (IRASEC researcher in (...)

From September 30th 2013 onward, the IRASEC’s offices will be located in the brand new Alliance Française building, on the 4th floor.
The IRASEC team will be ready to welcome you starting October 1st 2013.
Our new address is :
IRASEC
179 Thanon Witthayu
Lumphini, Pathum Wan
Bangkok 10330
Thailand
Our new phone numbers are :
Phone +66 (0) 26 70 42 91
Fax +66 (0) 26 70 42 (...)

On 3 September 2013, a public discussion and debate was held at Chulalongkorn University on the theme Continuity and Changes in Myanmar. Dr Renaud Egreteau and Mr Larry Jagan first presented their new book Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma, Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State, published by NUS Press (Singapore) in cooperation with IRASEC.
Dr Sunait Chutintaranond, Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Dr Jacques Leider, (...)

Le 26 août 2013 à 13h30 a eu lieu au Centre d’économie internationale, faculté d’économie de l’Université Chulalongkorn, la conférence The Ruling Elite of Singapore : Networks of Power and Influence du Dr Michael D. Barr de l’Université de Flinders (Australie), à l’occasion de la sortie prochaine de son livre, en partenariat avec l’IRASEC.
Michael D. Barr a présenté un large panorama de l’élite singapourienne depuis les années 1960 et l’indépendance de la ville-État. L’auteur a également décrit les étapes de (...)